Wiggins Senior Dalton Risner had been talking to people around the community and heard that there was still a need for financial assistance to some local flood victims. Community members stated that the families were working room by room to clean up the flood damage and cleaning supplies were expensive.

This prompted Risner over the holiday season to organize a fundraiser to help raise money to assist this process. The local Farmboy Crossfit gym decided to have a turkey trot once the town of Wiggins was unable to host the annual event this year. David and Stacie Ritchey of Wiggins volunteered to have the turkey trot at their farm south of town for anyone interested. Risner joined the effort in making flyers and announcements within the community to attend the Thanksgiving Day event and they would accept any donations towards his flood fundraiser. Many of the Farmboy members attended the turkey trot as well as other community members and helped donate money towards this cause.

Risner then decided to include the elementary students in this project as he felt like it was a good way to begin teaching the younger kids about community service and how they can help those around them. He felt like this was a perfect project since the children were somehow affected by the flood either through personal experience or through friends and family affected. Risner went to each classroom at the elementary school and spoke to the kids about raising money to help with the cleanup process. He asked the kids to bring in loose change over the period of several weeks and place in a jar within their classroom. A little incentive to the class in which accumulated the most change was an ice cream party that he would host. "The kids were so excited to help and many of them had stories about people they knew affected by the flood," Risner said. Each week he went into school on Friday and collected the change and encouraged the classes to keep up the good work, also letting them know it was a tight race between the 4th and 5th grades and the 2nd grade classroom. After the final count, the 2nd grade classes had collected the most funds and received their long awaited ice cream party with Risner. Their class raised 148.87.

Risner presented a check in the amount of $1,042.92 to Debora Beck- Massey at the Caring Ministries Service in Fort Morgan. This amount was the total of the turkey trot funds and also the school's change drive combined. Risner was very pleased with the amount of money collected especially over the holiday season when funds are tight. He hopes that this money can provide families with needed supplies to help restore their homes a little at a time. Risner would like to thank all the people who helped support his efforts, including Farmboy Crossfit, David and Stacie Ritchey and the Elementary teachers and staff. He stated that the teachers were so supportive of him visiting with the classrooms and stopping by each week to collect change. He would also like to thank the employees at the Bank of Colorado who accepted about $75 of change and happily sent it through their change machine to distribute him a check.